Open Knowledge Format

Open Knowledge Format

Apply the current upstream OKF v0.2 specification faithfully while keeping bundles useful to humans and agents. OKF is an interoperability format, not a domain taxonomy or replacement for OpenAPI, schemas, ADRs, or Diátaxis.

Read references/okf-v0.2.md completely before creating, migrating, or validating a bundle. When internet access is available and exact conformance matters, verify the current upstream specification before acting.

Preserve the conformance boundary

Establish the bundle root first. Only Markdown inside that root belongs to the bundle.

Treat exactly these as hard v0.2 requirements:

1. Every non-reserved Markdown concept has parseable YAML frontmatter.
2. Every concept frontmatter block has a non-empty type.
3. Present index.md and log.md files follow their reserved structures.

Do not reject unknown types or fields, missing optional metadata, missing indexes, or broken links. Report those separately as producer-quality issues.

Apply the producer profile

For every concept authored or meaningfully changed with this skill:

1. Require generated.by and generated.at; use the truthful v0.2 actor convention and an ISO 8601 datetime for the current content revision.
2. Do not write the legacy v0.1 timestamp field.
3. Put provenance in sources. Every source entry requires resource; add a stable id when a body claim uses a footnote such as [^source-id].
4. Do not create a legacy body # Citations list. Use sources and claim-level footnotes when attribution materially improves trust.
5. Strongly encourage resource for a concept describing a canonical asset, API, schema, dataset, package, or external system. Do not invent one for an abstract concept.
6. Add status, stale_after, verified, credibility signals, or attestation fields only when evidence warrants them. Absence is meaningful; never fabricate trust. When status is absent, consumers treat the concept as stable.
7. Preserve unknown producer fields.
8. Resolve every changed local link and verify every changed external source for reachability and semantic relevance.

Choose the operation

Create or convert

1. Identify the domain, authoritative sources, consumers, and bundle root.
2. Inventory atomic concepts and fix their paths before cross-linking.
3. Write one coherent concept per non-reserved Markdown file.
4. Add type, useful descriptive metadata, truthful generated, and warranted sources.
5. Add concise indexes for progressive disclosure and a log only when useful.
6. Verify links and sources, then validate hard conformance separately from producer-profile errors and warnings.

Migrate v0.1 to v0.2

1. Read §13 of the current specification.
2. Change the root declaration to okf_version: "0.2".
3. Replace timestamp with truthful generated.by and generated.at.
4. Move final # Citations entries into sources; split entries containing multiple links into separate sources and retain their titles.
5. Convert logs to one H1 title followed by newest-first ## YYYY-MM-DD sections.
6. Preserve all other fields and prose, then remove the legacy fields and citation section.
7. Run ruby scripts/validate_okf.rb <bundle-root> from this skill directory and resolve every error.

Maintain

1. Inspect changed sources and affected concepts.
2. Update facts and relationships without deleting unknown fields.
3. Refresh generated.by and generated.at for meaningful content edits.
4. Update sources and claim footnotes when provenance changes.
5. Update relevant indexes and add a newest-first log entry.
6. Reverify affected links, sources, and fragments.
7. Validate and report hard errors, producer-profile errors, and warnings separately.

Query

1. Start at the root index.md, otherwise inventory paths and frontmatter.
2. Use type, title, description, tags, sources, status, trust, lifecycle, and links to select concepts.
3. Read only the bodies required to answer.
4. Cite concept paths used and distinguish bundle facts from inference.

Validate

Run the bundled validator when Ruby is available:

ruby scripts/validate_okf.rb /path/to/bundle

For a repository that maintains Workspace Package concepts, require complete package coverage and source freshness:

ruby scripts/validate_okf.rb /path/to/bundle --workspace-root /path/to/repository
ruby scripts/generate_package_digests.rb /path/to/repository

The validator discovers apps/*/package.json and packages/*/package.json. Each manifest requires exactly one type: Workspace Package concept whose workspace_package, resource, and deterministic source_digest match. Digests include source and configuration while excluding .cache, node_modules, dist, target, coverage, .DS_Store, and TypeScript build-info files. A digest mismatch forces package documentation review in the same change as source edits.

Report:

• Conformance errors: violations of the three hard requirements.
• Producer-profile errors: legacy v0.1 fields, missing or malformed generated, malformed source families, invalid or unverified links/sources, or unjustified trust fields.
• Warnings: missing recommended metadata, weak navigation, orphan concepts, indirect sources, or potentially stale claims.

Handle reserved files

• Root index.md may contain only okf_version: "0.2" in frontmatter.
• Nested indexes have no frontmatter and provide concise navigation.
• Logs have one H1 title and newest-first ## YYYY-MM-DD sections with flat prose entries.
• Never treat index.md or log.md as concepts.

Handle provenance and trust

• Use sources[].resource for the material a concept derives from.
• Use the actor forms <producer>/<version>, human:<id>, and process:<id> for generated.by and verified[].by exactly as specified.
• Treat verified as by/at verification history, not a confidence score; consumers accept a bare mapping as a one-item list.
• Derive trust tiers and freshness from the standard fields. Do not store a subjective credibility score.
• Keep each attested computation as its own concept and never let an agent rewrite its sanctioned computation during execution.

Compose with Diátaxis

Use OKF for portable structure, provenance, trust, and links. Use Diátaxis to decide whether reader-facing material is a tutorial, how-to, reference, or explanation. Keep internal plans, decisions, and schemas in their native formats while representing each as a coherent OKF concept.